What Just Happened Critic Reviews

Makes Hollywood looks like a very expensive, lethal version of high school, but lots of fun from a safe distance.Read the full review

Deviates greatly from Linson's winning little book in its particulars, but retains its sustained melancholy mood of low-key existential dread and dyspeptic wit.Read the full review

Rambles a bit, but it has dryly obscene, laugh-out-loud lines, and its portrait of Hollywood as a giant anxiety attack is fused by De Niro.Read the full review

A finely observed and occasionally outright hilarious glimpse at the most treacherous inner workings of Tinseltown.Read the full review

The movie is brilliant at portraying the incredibly high stakes of the seemingly inconsequential and the tremendous amounts of money spent on it.Read the full review

Deep Hollywood inside-baseball, and for a while it cooks along with malevolent glee.Read the full review

Think of it as old Hollywood's version of "Entourage," an insider's take on the greed and vanity that make Tinseltown tick.Read the full review

This isn't a bad movie; it simply makes the mistake of believing that it has a wider appeal than is actually the case.Read the full review

This isn't a Hollywood satire, it's a sitcom. The flywheels of the plot machine keep it churning around, but it chugs off onto the back lot and doesn't hit anybody in management.Read the full review